RVNA has received the HomeCare Elite 2013 Award for Excellence for the 2nd year in a row!

This recognition is of the top performing home health agencies in the U.S. The HomeCare Elite Award 2013 identifies the top 25 percent of Medicare-certfied agencies and highlights the top 100 and the top 500 agencies overall.

According to a new study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, vaccination programs for children have prevented more than a million cases of serious contagious disease in the United States since 1924.
Scientists at the University of Pittsburg’s graduate school of public health analyzed public health records covering 56 diseases going back to 1888. The journal article focused on seven vaccine-preventable illnesses: polio, measles, rubella, mumps, hepatitis A, diphtheria, and pertussis (whooping cough).
The researchers looked at the disease reports from the times before and after commercially available vaccines. The researchers also projected the number of cases that would have occurred if the pre-vaccination patterns had continued as the population increased.
The scientists said their research should inform the debate on the risks and benefits of vaccination, particularly for children. The journal article notes the recent resurgence of some diseases as some parents have resisted vaccinating their children. For example, whooping cough cases last year were the highest since 1959, with more than 38,000 reported cases nationwide.
This data was collected and analyzed with the help of grants from the NIH and the Melissa and Bill Gates Foundation. This data entry project – 200 million keystrokes – was done by Digital Divide Data, a social enterprise that provides jobs and technology training to young people in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya. The project started in 2009, and required assembling 88 million reports of individual cases of disease, much of it from the weekly morbidity reports from the Centers for Disease Control library. The reports were then converted to digital formats, and will be available for the public to use for other projects.

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